finder

noun
/ˈfaɪndə/UK/ˈfaɪndəɹ/US

Etymology

From Middle English findere. By surface analysis, find + -er.

  1. inherited from findere

Definitions

  1. One who finds or discovers something

    One who finds or discovers something; a discoverer.

    • Finders keepers, losers weepers.
    • The finder of treasure trove owns it against the landowner and everyone else except the true owner.
  2. A device, such as a viewfinder, used to locate a target or other object of interest.

    • Perhaps some electrical finder could have been developed so delicate that it could have located the source of all this spreading joy and fortune.
  3. A person who picks up scraps and oddments to sell to make a living.

    • Even the Whitechapel meat-market is less the scene of prey, for it is a series of shops, while Leadenhall presents many stalls, and the finders seem loath to enter shops without some plausible pretext.
  4. + 1 more definition
    1. A surname from German.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for finder. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA